About Augusto Roa Bastos
Augusto Roa Bastos was a Paraguayan novelist and short story writer. As a teenager he fought in the Chaco War between Paraguay and Bolivia, and he later worked as a journalist, screenwriter and professor. He is best known for his complex novel Yo el Supremo and for winning the Premio Miguel de Cervantes in 1989, Spanish literature's most prestigious prize. Yo el Supremo explores the dictations and inner thoughts of José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia, the eccentric dictator of Paraguay who ruled with an iron fist, from 1814 until his death in 1840.
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Awards & Honors
Officer of Arts and Letters
Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres
Grand Cross of the Order of Isabella the Catholic
honorary doctor of the University of Toulouse-II
Miguel de Cervantes Prize
Kurt Tucholsky Prize
Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
Guggenheim Fellowship
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Order of the Liberator General San Martín
Order of José Martí
National Order of Merit
Knight of the Legion of Honour
